A Mars spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been AWOL. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN orbiter.

The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept around for the Space Shuttle Program. Now, the vehicle is back to its original purpose of positioning Moon-bound rockets on their launch pads.

Florida's Space Coast — home of NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — remains the reigning rocket launch capital of the world. Last year ushered in a new annual record of 109 orbital launches,

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is expected to launch a crewed spacecraft for lunar exploration as early as the first week of February, BBC reported. This will mark the first crewed lunar launch in 50 years,

Aside from Pandora, the launch also carried dozens of additional satellites, including two NASA-sponsored CubeSats.

NASA has launched a competition to help develop food sources for astronauts on Mars. The winning idea might even help people on Earth.